SPEAKER PROFILES

Annie Pho is the Instruction Coordinator and Assessment Librarian at the University of San Francisco. She has a Bachelor's in Art History from San Francisco State University and an Master's in Library Science from IUPUI. She serves on the editorial board for In the Library With the Lead Pipe, is the co-editor for the book Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS, as well as the co-editor of the Critical Race and Multiculturalism Series for Library Juice Press. Her research interests include intersectionality and women of color in LIS, student research behavior, and feminist pedagogy in information literacy instruction. In her free time, she likes to hang out with her cat, explore the SF Bay Area, and spends way too much time reading comments on the internet.

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Ricardo L. Punzalan is associate professor of archives and digital curation at the College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. He is also affiliate faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and co-directs Maryland’s Museum Scholarship and Material Culture program. He is recipient of an early-career grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study and develop strategies to assess the impact of access to digitized ethnographic archives for academic and Indigenous community users. He currently runs a research and fellowship program to enhance agricultural data curation efforts at the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Punzalan holds a Ph.D. in Information as well as graduate certificates in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. He previously taught on the faculty of the University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies.